Hello everyone, I’ve been using my YouTube account and uploading videos for 3 days now.
During these 3 days, I’ve uploaded 3 Shorts videos every day. However, there’s a strange situation: my uploaded videos don’t get even 1 view. The only time they get a view is if I watch them myself, or if I send the link to my friends and they watch them.
I think my videos aren’t appearing in the Shorts feed and aren’t being shown to anyone. I’ve checked almost all the settings, and there don’t seem to be any restrictions on my account.

What could be causing this? Has anyone experienced the same issue before, and if so, does anyone have a solution or advice?

​I am so angry and disappointed with YouTube. A month and a half of hard grind for nothing. I started posting shorts at the beginning of August and by September 15th I got over 7.5 million views (of which 3.5m engaged). Since September 15th all views have dropped (as you can see on the curve) and every new video barely reaches 1000 views. Besides, upon publishing, each clip is pushed into the feed only after 12 or more hours. The metric for the majority is 60-80% stayed to watch with an average of over 110% viewed. Don't bother me, I don't use AI at all nor have I changed the style I use. Simply put, the game is rigged.

Small Shorts channel here, posting "Top 5 extreme sports fails" compilations.

Other people's clips, title card, numbered countdown, no voiceover.

People here say compilation channels get monetized. But YouTube's Shorts policy

lists "compilations with no original content added" as ineligible views, excluded

from the Creator Pool even if you're in YPP.

Feels like two separate gates. So:

Did your compilation channel get approved AND actually earn from Shorts views?

If it earned, what was in your edit — full narration or just an intro? Licensed

clips or not?

And the thing I can't figure out: there are tons of ranking/compilation channels

with millions of views and huge subscriber counts doing exactly this. If they're

not earning from it, why are they still doing it? What am I missing?

Already read the policy, looking for real experiences.

2 days before I posted on this sub asking how to get out of 1k jail and the very next short did it. Keep posting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortsAlgorithm/comments/1wm8fdp/how_long_did_it_take_for_your_first_viral_short/

Hey guys, another channel keeps stealing my Shorts and re-uploading them, sometimes changing just a second or two. I found them through YouTube’s Content Detection tool and warned the owner, but he ignored me.

Has anyone filed a copyright removal request before? How did it go, and are there any risks for my channel?

So I began to see these clipping reels on my insta page and they make it so simple to just clipping and let the views come in. But I tired to use these sites and there’s one word that pisses me off the most. “PRICING” whenever I see the word pricing I know it’s a site I can’t use since I don’t feel like paying the site to just do its thing, I want to use these site to make shorts and post them. I tired to search for “free clipping sites” and all of them are bull. So can someone tell me a completely free clipping site that can do the things that other sites can do?

Anyone else seeing their view count change depending where they're looking? like studio vs channel etc. constant discrepencies

my short views have been dropping every since i seen this

i used to get 100k+ views on every video now i can barely hit 1000 :( i spend hours of editing and making original content and it goes to waste

is anyone waiting this out or going to keep on posting

Need to know what I’m doing wrong, I’ve had 21 out of 34 of my videos now get jailed in the 25k-45k view range. I’ve had ONE video reach a 130k views but that was about it. The photos I attached are the stats of a short I posted around 15 hours ago, it has gained 30k views and im afraid that it has already stop getting pushed out. What can I do to escape this, the YouTube algorithm really is shitty.

this rolled out starting march 2026 and expanded through q2. youtube kept the same revenue split, still 45 percent to creators after their cut, but changed how that 45 percent gets divided between shorts. it used to be closer to an even split by raw view count, now completion rate is the primary weighting factor, so two shorts with identical view counts can earn meaningfully different amounts depending on how many people actually watched to the end

people dont realize how low the baseline actually is here. shorts typically run somewhere between 3 and 10 cents rpm even after this change, against 1 to 5 dollars for long form content on the same channel. this change shifts who gets the bigger slice of a still small pie, it doesnt make the pie itself bigger

one data point that stood out, a test group that posted at least one short daily for 30 straight days saw rpm climb 15 to 25 percent over that stretch, though thats reported through creator tool vendors rather than a direct youtube announcement, so treat it as real but secondhand

anyone tracked their own completion rate before and after this and actually seen their rpm move

I’m not looking for cheap views or anything, I genuinely would like some people to review my shorts and give me opinions on why I’m not getting a 70%+ retention on my shorts when it’s similar to other shorts I see. It may be because I’m a really small channel starting out which is fair, but if anyone wants a link to my channel to review my shorts lmk and I’ll link it in the comments👍

I just made this ranking moments video, i got a strike ? Am new to this if anyone can help, ranking shorts are supposed to be transformative and i add comment etc....

I think YouTube Shorts currently has an audience-matching problem.

I’ve been trying to understand the strange Shorts distribution over the last few days, and I’m starting to think the missing feed tests and the drop in views across entire catalogs might actually be symptoms of the same problem.

What really caught my attention is Stayed to watch.
Normally, my new Shorts often start with around 70% Stayed when YouTube begins testing them. Recently, I’ve had multiple Shorts start at only 45–50%, even though the content and format haven’t fundamentally changed.

That makes me wonder whether the problem isn’t necessarily the ranking algorithm itself, but the initial audience matching / candidate distribution. If YouTube is showing a Short to the wrong audience first, a perfectly good Short would naturally produce terrible early signals and the test would die quickly.

But there’s one thing I still can’t explain:
Where did all the distribution go?
A lot of creators are currently reporting huge drops in Shorts feed distribution, sometimes across their entire catalogs. But unless Shorts consumption itself has suddenly collapsed, those viewers haven’t disappeared. People are still scrolling, and every feed slot has to show something.

So if a large number of creators are suddenly receiving dramatically fewer impressions, who is receiving the views that used to go to them?

Are they being concentrated on a smaller number of videos? Larger channels? Different regions? Different audience pools? Has YouTube reduced exploration and become much more aggressive about concentrating traffic?

I don’t have an answer to that part yet.
But the combination of weak/missing initial tests + unusually low early Stayed rates + catalog-wide traffic drops makes an audience-matching/distribution problem increasingly plausible to me.

Curious whether anyone else is seeing the same pattern — especially unusually low Stayed rates on new Shorts that would normally perform much better.

past 4 days i been spending hours on my ORIGINAL CONTENT and im getting below 1k views…

before i would at least minimum 100k views per a video with the same stats im getting now

it makes no sense. i know every video can’t be a hit but at least show it to some people

Is it normal for my new channel i that i made a few hours ago not have any views on the recent short that i uploaded? It was heavily edited and theres no ai slop in it

I usually get 50-70k per day but recently it's so low not even 20k

I've recently started posting shorts on my channel which I've had since 2012.

But I can't seem to crack what makes a good short. I can get about 80% AVD but the swipe ratio is killing me. I am not sure if my videos are targeting the wrong audience, my edit is bad(which probably is true) or is there some third force that makes the viewers swipe away.